Kenya ex-accountant fined for forged school certificate
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Citizen
Lilian Mweche Muyumba, a former accountant at the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board, was fined 130,000 shillings for using a forged school certificate to secure her job. She faces three years in prison if she fails to pay, according to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission.
Lilian Mweche Muyumba, a former accountant at the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (NuPEA), was fined a total of 130,000 Kenyan shillings for using forged school documents to obtain her job. She pleaded guilty to two charges and was sentenced on 19 October 2026 by the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court, according to Kenyan media outlet Citizen.
Magistrate Ndombi fined her 30,000 shillings for presenting a false document and 100,000 shillings for using a forged secondary school examination certificate. If she fails to pay, she faces one year and two years in prison respectively.
An investigation by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) found that Muyumba had submitted a fake KCSE certificate, for Kenya’s national secondary school leaving examination, purportedly obtained in 1996 from Moi Girls Secondary School in Nangili. The commission welcomed the conviction, saying it could deter similar offences.
